Taiwan Hokkien / Human Relations Area Files, Inc.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Human Relations Area Files, Inc, author.

Series:

EHRAF world cultures.

EHRAF world cultures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

New Haven, Conn. : Human Relations Area Files, 1995.

Summary:

The Taiwan Hokkien are Hokkien-speaking peasant villagers who emigrated to Taiwan from the Chinese province of Fukien.

Contents:

Cult of the dead in a Chinese village ; Affines and the rituals of kinship ; Power and pollution of Chinese women ; Thai Ti Kong festival ; Domestic architecture in Taiwan ; Chinese-style and Western-style doctors in northern Taiwan ; Sacred and secular medicine in a Taiwan village ; Segmentation in Chinese lineages / Emily M. Ahern Ethnographic description of Sanlei Ts'un, Taiwan / William Kester Barnett Case study of the dynamics of family law and social change in rural China / David C. Buxbaum Ying-ting ; Government enterprise and village politics / Chung-min Chen Town and country / Lawrence William Crissman Religion and ritual in Lukang ; Social structure in a nineteenth-century Taiwanese port city ; Doing business in Lukang ; City on the sands / Donald R. DeGlopper K'un Shen / Norma Diamond Domestic and communal worship in Taiwan / Stephan Feuchtwang Hsin Hsing, Taiwan ; Political factionalism and its impact on Chinese village social organization in Taiwan ; Rural to urban migration in Taiwan ; Mediation in changing Chinese society in rural Taiwan ; Integration of village migrants in Taipei / Bernard Gallin Prosperity Settlement / Hill Gates Medical systems in a Taiwan village ; Women asking women / Katherine Gould-Martin Belief and unbelief in a Taiwan village ; When a ghost becomes a god ; Social organization in Hai-shan ; Ancestors at home ; Growing old in rural Taiwan ; Concept of soul in Chinese folk religion ; Ploughshare village / Stevan Harrell Agricultural degradation / Shu-min Huang Cultural bases of factional alignment and division in a rural Taiwanese township ; Local politics in rural Taiwan / J. Bruce Jacobs Gods, ghosts and ancestors / David K. Jordan Subethnic rivalry in the Ch'ing period / Harry J. Lamley Chinese geomancy and ancestor worship / Yih-yuan Li Symbolism of popular Taoist magic / John Linwood McCreery Chinese pioneer family / Johanna Menzel Meskill Effect of household composition on the child rearing practices of Taiwanese families / Nancy Johnston Olsen Modernization and household composition in Taiwan / William L. Parish Kinship & community in two Chinese villages / Burton Pasternak Chinese marketing community / Paul Steven Sangren Orthodoxy and heterodoxy in Taoist ritual / Michael R. Saso Written memorial in Taoist ceremonies / Kristofer Marinus Schipper Sexual politics of karmic retribution ; Temple organization in a Chinese village / Gary Seaman Cultural summary, Taiwan Hokkien / Ian Skoggard and Michael A. Marcus Migration and family change in central Taiwan / Alden Speare Property and family division / Lung-sheng Sung Traditional and modern psychiatric care in Taiwan / Wen-shing Tseng Religious organization in the history of a Taiwanese town / Shih-ch'ing Wang Taiwanese architecture and the supernatural ; Ancestors proper and peripheral / Sung-hsing Wang Continuities in land tenure, 1900-1940 / Edgar Wickberg Marriage and adoption in a Hokkien village ; Aspects of ancestor worship in northern Taiwan ; Marriage and adoption in China, 1845-1945 / Arthur P. Wolf The house of Lim ; Women and the family in rural Taiwan ; Child training and the Chinese family / Margery Wolf.

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